Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or shortening the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a right of complaints.

Amendment II

A well, keeping pace militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be obsolete.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by promise or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a assets, or otherwise notorious crime, unless on a presentment or reflection of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be obligated in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be underprivileged of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just reward.

Amendment VI

In all criminal trial, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an neutral jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously determine by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the charge; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have enforced process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in disagreement shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines forced, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflict.

Amendment IX

The listing in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be take to deny or criticize others maintained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not retain to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Amendment XI

The official power of the United States shall not be deduced to extend to any suit in law or fair play, start or put on trial against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.

Amendment XII

The voters shall meet in their individual states and vote by opinion for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an occupant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their opinions the person voted for as President, and in distinct poll the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and verify, and send out sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.

Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor unintentional servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their authority.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall shorten the privileges or protection of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state leave without any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be divide up among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in legislative body, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male population of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way reduced, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation within shall be reduced in the percentage which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state government, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The strength of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of retirement fund and bounties for services in suppressing revolution or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or duty incurred in aid of civil naughtiness or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or freeing of any slave; but all such debts, responsibility and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the supplies of this article.

Amendment XV

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or shortened by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XVI

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on profits, from whatever source resulting, without sharing among the several states, and without observe to any opinion poll or details.

Amendment XVII

The Senate of the United States shall be self-possessed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the education necessary for electors of the most many branch of the state legislatures.

When situation happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the decision-making authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such situation: Provided, that the legislature of any state may authorize the decision-making thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

This amendment shall not be so understand by as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes suitable as part of the Constitution.

Amendment XVIII

Section 1. After one year from the confirmation of this article the produce, sale, or transportation of exciting liquor within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all terrain subject to the control thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have separate power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be broken down unless it shall have been approve as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the compliance hereof to the states by the Congress.

Amendment XIX

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be without of or shorten by the United States or by any state on account of gender.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XX

Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been approve; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have transfer upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have whenever upon them.

Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.

Section 6. This article shall be out of action unless it shall have been confirm as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its obedience.

Amendment XXI

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby canceled.

Section 2. The transportation or trade in into any state, territory, or custody of the United States for delivery or use therein of exciting liquors, in abuse of the laws thereof, is hereby outlawed.

Section 3. This article shall be broken down unless it shall have been confirm as an amendment to the Constitution by gathering in the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the compliance hereof to the states by the Congress.

Amendment XXII

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes working from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its obedience to the states by the Congress.

Amendment XXIII

Section 1. The District represent the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least packed state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by suitable legislation.

Amendment XXIV

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXV

Section 1. In case of the elimination of the President from office or of his death or acknowledgment, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall propose a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a popular vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3. Whenever the President broadcast to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Amendment XXVI

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or shorten by the United States or any state on account of age.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXVII

No law, unreliable the damages for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intrude.